Yesterday was our second day of house hunting. It was less eventful than the first day for which I am VERY thankful. We drove around with our realtor and looked at some resale houses in various neighborhoods. None of the houses or neighborhoods struck our fancy. After our realtor dropped us off, we had lunch and then headed back to the new subdivision we are interested in. We stopped and asked the gal in the sales office some questions and then decided we needed to sleep on it before we wrote anyone a big check. After sleeping on it and talking about it we decided to wait. We have enough things on our plate right now. We don’t need the additional stress of building a house on top of everything else we have going on right now.
Archive for January 17th 2010
I wasn’t sure I was going to like this book at first. The first few chapters are a page or two long at the most and it was bothering me. I absolutely loved Walls’ first novel, The Glass Castle, and after I got into it a little bit, I really liked this one too. The Glass Castle is a memoir of the author’s childhood. Half Broke Horses is the story of her grandmother and also the author’s mother’s childhood. Reading Half Broke Horses really helped me to understand how her mother got to be who she was because after reading The Glass Castle I was flabbergasted as to how anyone could live that way, on purpose, with children in tow.